Garter



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RUDOLPH F. BARTEL', OF NEVI YORK, N. Y.`

GARTER.

Application tiled September 30, 1921. Serial No. 504,393.

This invention relates to an improved characterized by a. constructionthat avoids any metal or projecting parts coming in contact with thelimb of the wearer or his garments.

The object of tion of a garter the invention is the producthat can beeasily secured in place. Another object of the improved garter is' to beenabled to clamp a stocking at variable distances from its top edge. Athird object of the invention is the production of a garter that hasextending therefrom a depending strap with a clamping device which isbelow and directly in line, with a vclamping device that connects theends of the leg band of the garter.A By means of this construction thestrains on the leg band are transmitted through its clampn ing deviceand thereby the strains on each side of said clamping device areequalized.

. In the accompanying drawings which represent an exemplification of oneform of the improved garter Fig. l shows a front elevation thereof withits leg band in perspective; Fig. 2 represents an enlarged sec* tion ofFig.l 1 on the an enlarged section of Fig. l on the line 3, 3 and Fig. 4indicates an enlarged section of Y Fig. l on the line 2, 4 with the hookend of the leg band locked in operative position.

The garter comprises the leg band 20, in

l this instance of elastic webbing of one condisc has secured pliablematerial connected to each other bythe stitching 3l,

tinuous piece of material with the hook end 2l and the providedfor theband 20 to adjust its length at one end portion thereof. At the eXtremeouter end of the adjusted portion is secured a frame 24 with the hook25. At the other end of the leg band 20 is fastened a double discdesignated in its entirety by the letter A. The said disc comprises theouter member 26 that has connected thereto the eyelet 27 and the innermember 28 with the inner face 29. The said disc is preferably made ofand the members thereof are forming a pocket 32 between them. Thethereto the end 22 of the leg band 20. The said disc extends above thetop edge and below the bottom edge of the leg band 20 and forms acomplete enclosure for the pocket 32.

line 2, 2; Fig. 3 shows disc end 22. A slide buckle 23 is` lA dependingstrap designated in its en-` tirety by the letter B, has its top endconnected to the disc A by thel stitching 31.

The said strap comprises the pair of members 35, 36 and the pair ofmembers 37, 38. The members 37 and 38 at. their lower end join to form aloop 39, for the loop 40. The

members and 36 form a loop 43 at their bottom ends and the member 36supports the button 45. It will be noted that the two pairs of members35, 36 and 37, 38 `are only connected to each other at their top ends bythe stitching 3l in the disc A.

To secure a garter, in position the leg band 2O is located aroundthelimb of the wearer or around the garment thereon and the hook end 21 islocated over the disc A and the hook 25 locked into the opening of theeyelet 27. The upper portion of the stocking which is to be supported isthen located between the members 36 and 87 of the strap B, and by reasonof the fact that said members are only connected to each other at theirtop ends, the top edge of the stocking can be located at differentdistances from the top end of said strap vB. The stocking is now clampedover the button 45 by means of the loop 40 in the usual manner.

It will be noted by an inspection of Fig. 4 that when the hook 25 islocked to the eyelet 27 its outer end is locatedl adjacent to the innerface 29 of the inner member 28 of the disc A, thereby avoiding anycontact of said hook with the wearer.

It will also be noted that the button is in a vertical line directlybelow the eyelet 27, by reason of which the strains on the ends 2l and22 of the leg band are equalized.

Having described my invention what I desire to secure by Letters Patentand claim In a garter the combination of a leg band of one continuouspiece of material, means to adjust the length of the band at one endportion thereof, a hook extending from the extreme outer end of saidadjusted portion, a. disc of pliable material connected to the other endvof the band and extending above the .upper edge and below the loweredge thereof, the said disc comprising an outer member and an innermember stitched to each other completely around their circumferentialedges to form a complete enclosure to extending from the disc and abutton with a vconstitute a pocket between them, an eyelet loop carriedby said strap. extending through an opening in the outer Signed at theborough of Manhatt-an, city 10 member 0I" the dise and fastened thereto,of New York, in the county of New York 5 said hook adapted to lock withthe eyelet and State of New York this 26th day 0f `amd extendingtherethrough into said pocket, September, A. D. 1921. a strap comprisingmembers of webbing RUDOLPH F. BARTEL.

